You wish you had my time? Careful what you wish for. I can browse the web and write gibberish comments at my day job, online poker. But it’s not as fun as you might think. Yesterday after five hours play, I finished 4 out of the money in a poker tournament. Some idiot sucked out a flush with two running cards to beat my trips. A day’s pay gone, just like that. More brutal, take my word on this, than a crowded F train.
I don't play poker as much now. I recently began working 20 hours a week as a standardized patient for Kaplan, and that's all the income I really need. Once poker was all I had. But it drains as much psychic energy from you as art does. If you are playing at the stakes I was in the live games, there is nothing "part time" about. You are doing it or not doing it. Now I am playing at lower stakes online, which means lower intensity, and I can do other things on the computer while I play. The investment is less. So I still make money but nothing like I did before. I love the game(online is a facsimile to the live game, with no social interaction, so never quite real or worthy except as a job). I just don't have the time and psychic energy to invest in real poker as before. I have felt the same about theatre many times.
Dont live there any more but man would that be awesome and long overdue.
ReplyDeleteDid you see this in the news on the F train awhile back? Too bad it was only an art project.
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I hate my crowded train ride. Nick, i wish I had as much time as you have.
ReplyDeleteYou wish you had my time? Careful what you wish for. I can browse the web and write gibberish comments at my day job, online poker. But it’s not as fun as you might think. Yesterday after five hours play, I finished 4 out of the money in a poker tournament. Some idiot sucked out a flush with two running cards to beat my trips. A day’s pay gone, just like that. More brutal, take my word on this, than a crowded F train.
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ReplyDeleteI don't play poker as much now. I recently began working 20 hours a week as a standardized patient for Kaplan, and that's all the income I really need. Once poker was all I had. But it drains as much psychic energy from you as art does. If you are playing at the stakes I was in the live games, there is nothing "part time" about. You are doing it or not doing it. Now I am playing at lower stakes online, which means lower intensity, and I can do other things on the computer while I play. The investment is less. So I still make money but nothing like I did before. I love the game(online is a facsimile to the live game, with no social interaction, so never quite real or worthy except as a job). I just don't have the time and psychic energy to invest in real poker as before. I have felt the same about theatre many times.
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